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    Coffee altered book — Complete

    January 18, 2016 - By 

    I can hardly believe it but I’m finished!! I started this altered book the summer of 2008. Yeah…talk about a long term project. Never in my wildest dreams would I have guessed that it would take over 7 years to complete this “easy theme” of coffee.

    Coffee altered book | Halle's Hobbies

    A couple weeks ago I completed this last page in the altered book.  All that was needed was something done with the cover.

    Coffee altered book | Halle's Hobbies

    I saved some cheap newsprint type paper that had been wrapped around candle a while back. It was a good size piece…perfect for distressing and covering the book. I decided that a found text story might be fun if I could somehow tie it into the theme.  And bonus…I got to use a new stamp.

    Tomorrow for T stands for Tuesday I’ll share the whole book.

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    T Tuesday: National Coffee Day edition

    September 29, 2015 - By 

    I’m quickly linking up with Elizabeth and Bleubeard this morning.

    National Coffee Day

    Coffee for T stands for Tuesday works for me!

    T stands for Tuesday

    Before I head off for another action packed Tuesday I had to share with you my colorful carrots…

    not so colorful carrots

    Look what happened to the purple ones when I peeled them!!

    I’m not sure how often I’ll be participating with T stands for Tuesday in the coming months. Tuesdays are super hard for me if I want to do more than post and run. I hope you’ll still stop by from time to time…I’ll do the same for you…

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    Journal 52: Collage Crazy

    April 19, 2015 - By 

    I’m trying my hand at Journal 52 this week since I was using magazine images in my coffee theme book. coffee collage crazy

    I pulled out elements that fit my theme then went for some scrapbook paper for the background. Not my usual way of starting out but I’ve got to use up some of that paper!!

    The paper I used is actually for a little boy page. The upper left of the 12×12 piece said Catch me…  Since I already had the word coffee… cut out it seemed to fit perfectly.

    Across the top I layered on a coffee bean image from an ad and part of a bookmark. It still needed something so I sponged some gesso through a letter stencil. I then dipped my double circle tool, which happens to be from the center of a transparent tape roll, in gesso because who doesn’t love circles!

    I used a Pitt pen to go around the coffee cup image for depth. I still felt it needed a bit more of the red so I grabbed some stickers from Starbucks (thanks Elizabeth) for the right touch of color. I  happened upon these play money coins and thought they’d be perfect final touch.